Jewish Calendar Sunday, 27 Kislev, 5784 Decemdaber 10, 2023
Jewish Calendar Sunday, 27 Kislev, 5784 December 10, 2023 Chanukah Day 3 Menorah Lighting Light 4 lights on the Menorah after 4:36 PM Torah Reading Chanukah 3: Numbers 7:24-35 Jewish History Flood rains cease (2105 BCE) The forty days and nights of rainfall which covered the face of earth with water in Noah's time ended on Kislev 27 of the year 1656 from creation (2105 BCE. The flood itself lasted a full year, as related in Genesis 6-8). Links: Chronology of the Flood ; The Torah's account (Parshat Noach); The 40-Day Mikvah 3rd Day of Chanukah Miracle (139 BCE) On the 25th of Kislev in the year 3622 from creation, the Maccabees liberated the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, after defeating the vastly more numerous and powerful armies of the Syrian-Greek king Antiochus IV, who had tried to forcefully uproot the beliefs and practices of Judaism from the people of Israel. The victorious Jews repaired, cleansed and rededicated the Temple to the service of G-d. But all the Temple